Rachel Krevans
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Articles
En banc Federal Circuit affirms ITC’s authority to issue exclusion orders for induced infringement of method claims
USA - August 11 2015 Reversing an earlier panel decision, the en banc Federal Circuit confirmed that the ITC has the authority to issue exclusion orders against imported…
Beineke v. Kappos – are discovered plants patentable?
USA - January 28 2013 In November, Walter Beineke petitioned the Supreme Court for review of a Federal Circuit decision affirming the rejection of two plant patents on…
Sound the alarm?—The Supreme Court’s renewed interest in life sciences patents could create additional hurdles across the field
USA - November 16 2012 First, there was Mayo v. Prometheus, where the Supreme Court found the medical diagnostic methods at issue were not patentable subject matter.
Patent exhaustion and self-replicating technologies
USA - September 6 2012 In Bowman v. Monsanto, the Supreme Court requested the opinion of the Solicitor General on whether to grant review on two questions: “Whether the Federal Circuit erred by (1) refusing to find patent exhaustion in patented seeds even after an authorized sale and by (2) creating an exception to the doctrine of patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies?”
Patent exhaustion and self-replicating technologies: what might the Supreme Court say?
USA - April 10 2012 In Bowman v. Monsanto, the Supreme Court recently requested the views of the Solicitor General on whether to grant certiorari.
